Weekend in the cold
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greatbearI am sometimes a complete, absent-minded idiot. Winter is settling in here at the Aragegay of Ayhemay. Earlier I had bought antifreeze for the travel trailer, plus had planned on emptying two fountains here plus winterize my pressure washers. This weekend it got nasty cold, complete with snow and big time winds. It dawned on me that I had not taken care of these winterizing tasks that kept slipping my mind. Tonight I had taken some stuff to put in the trailer and it dawned on me, there's still water in all these things. And, yes, it's frozen solid everywhere. I am hoping that no damage has occurred to the plumbing and pumps in the trailer and the pressure washer. If the weather does not warm up a bit in the next few days I will have to run the heater in the trailer up to insane levels to drain it all and hope that nothing got damaged. I doubt I will be very lucky.
I notice this sort of dumbheaded forgetfulness happening a lot lately. I must be getting old. I am also pretty much distracted these days too, which does not help. I seem to have a screwed up perception of time. The days and months just fly by. I need to figure out a way to keep from feeling that all the days are just run together.
I stopped at the local Best Buy today, which I had not been inside of for a while now. I was with a friend of mine who was after a cordless phone for his ailing mom, so I hitched along for a ride. We both walked into the newly remodeled store and noticed the corner area that had now been made for musical instruments. Since we both played together many years ago and shared the same huge interest in music gear, we figured there was going to be a bunch of entry level stuff there. Wrong-o. They has everything from the expected Fender Squire hundred dollar starter guitars to 2900 dollar Les Paul Customs. Marshall stacks, Fender Twins, Taylor acoustics, Pro Tools audio workstations, pro DJ gear, drum sets, mixers, PA systems... it was all crammed in there and then some. The prices, for a brick 'n' mortar place, were fairly competitive. WTF! There were even jam rooms and most of the stuff available for playing. One of these days we'll have to return when we have time to play around with the goods. And I have my mind on that set of Mackie studio monitors again. Arrgh!
The xmas tree is up in the house and Jeff started decorating it today. We'll finish it off tomorrow evening and we'll do some outside decorating during the week. If it werent for Jeff, I would not bother with all that just for myself. Still, it's nice to do it, even though the holidays are more of a bother for me than anything festive these days. I'm trying.
Yesterday I was going to install my replacement garage door opener. That got thwarted when it started snowing. Since I had to park a bunch of stuff outside while I did the work in the building, the snow would have made everything wet. So instead, I sat by the woodstove in the living room and assembled the actual opener from all the included pieces and waited till today to put it in. I have it all installed save for the sensors, controls and wiring. I can do that tomorrow or later in the week. I need to do a bit of adjustments to the door itself to balance it again as well. If this new opener works well, I will get a matching one for the other door soon enough to replace the other, nearly 20 year old unit. I want to get a matched set if possible. The way things get updated and changed so often, it might not be long for that model.
I hope these next few weeks at work will be mostly stress free before the holidays. I need some sanity and some time off. It'd do my old body good.
I notice this sort of dumbheaded forgetfulness happening a lot lately. I must be getting old. I am also pretty much distracted these days too, which does not help. I seem to have a screwed up perception of time. The days and months just fly by. I need to figure out a way to keep from feeling that all the days are just run together.
I stopped at the local Best Buy today, which I had not been inside of for a while now. I was with a friend of mine who was after a cordless phone for his ailing mom, so I hitched along for a ride. We both walked into the newly remodeled store and noticed the corner area that had now been made for musical instruments. Since we both played together many years ago and shared the same huge interest in music gear, we figured there was going to be a bunch of entry level stuff there. Wrong-o. They has everything from the expected Fender Squire hundred dollar starter guitars to 2900 dollar Les Paul Customs. Marshall stacks, Fender Twins, Taylor acoustics, Pro Tools audio workstations, pro DJ gear, drum sets, mixers, PA systems... it was all crammed in there and then some. The prices, for a brick 'n' mortar place, were fairly competitive. WTF! There were even jam rooms and most of the stuff available for playing. One of these days we'll have to return when we have time to play around with the goods. And I have my mind on that set of Mackie studio monitors again. Arrgh!
The xmas tree is up in the house and Jeff started decorating it today. We'll finish it off tomorrow evening and we'll do some outside decorating during the week. If it werent for Jeff, I would not bother with all that just for myself. Still, it's nice to do it, even though the holidays are more of a bother for me than anything festive these days. I'm trying.
Yesterday I was going to install my replacement garage door opener. That got thwarted when it started snowing. Since I had to park a bunch of stuff outside while I did the work in the building, the snow would have made everything wet. So instead, I sat by the woodstove in the living room and assembled the actual opener from all the included pieces and waited till today to put it in. I have it all installed save for the sensors, controls and wiring. I can do that tomorrow or later in the week. I need to do a bit of adjustments to the door itself to balance it again as well. If this new opener works well, I will get a matching one for the other door soon enough to replace the other, nearly 20 year old unit. I want to get a matched set if possible. The way things get updated and changed so often, it might not be long for that model.
I hope these next few weeks at work will be mostly stress free before the holidays. I need some sanity and some time off. It'd do my old body good.
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Date: 2008-12-08 05:33 am (UTC)Tossing more stuff into it at Mom and Dad's during Thanksgiving, I noticed a bit of ice next to the base of the kitchen faucet...turned the heat on in it for two days, and Dad and I wound up blowing at least two gallons of water out of the lines. I'm hoping there's no damage, too, but since the base of that spout in the kitchen was spraying water with the tap turned on, I know better. It goes back in to the dealership in spring for repairs, which they have assured me will be taken care of because of their "error" in not winterizing it.
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Date: 2008-12-08 09:28 pm (UTC)Russian Circles!!!
You get a gold star. Holy shit!
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